History of Theories of Ether and Electricity

ISBN: 9780883185230

出版社: Springer Verlag

出版年: 1986-1

页数: 808

定价: $ 73.39

装帧: HRD

内容简介

Market: Physicists, interested lay readers, and historians of science. This survey of the history of electrodynamics provides insight into the revolutionary advances made in physics during 19th and the first quarter of the 20th centuries. The first volume covers the theories of classical physics from the time of Plato to the end of the 19th century. The second volume examines the origins of the discoveries that paved the way for modern physics with the emphasis on special relativity, quantum theories, general relativity, matrix mechanics, and wave mechanics.